Mark Harding
Head Of Polycentric at FUTO
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Harding is a founder and technologist with 14 years of experience building large-scale, community-driven platforms from Manchester. He served as CTO at Minds.com for over a decade, leading engineering for a 5M+ member open-source social network using PHP, Angular, React Native, Kubernetes, Cassandra, Vitess, Pulsar and ElasticSearch. Skilled at marrying design sensibilities with systems engineering, he introduced agile practices, infrastructure efficiency savings and mentorship that scaled a Series B product after $16M in funding. Now leading Modify, he continues to blend product-led engineering with creative direction, favoring open architectures and developer-first tooling. His background in music (BMus) hints at a creative approach to technical problem solving and user experience. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic leader who moves fast on emergent platforms while keeping long-term reliability and community values front and center.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree BMus, Bachelor's Degree BMus at Royal Conservatoire of ScotlandRossall School
Github Skills (200)
web-performance10
javascript10
mobile-application10
activitypub10
web-developer10
social-media10
angular10
kubernetes10
cassandra10
seed10
nostr10
typescript10
pulsar10
prerendering10
gitlab10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
Minds/Surge
Mar 2015 - Aug 2019
A php library for sending push notifications
Contributions:8 commits, 3 PRs, 10 pushes in 4 years 6 months
php-librarypush-notifications
Minds/minds
Jul 2012 - Jan 2023
mirror of https://gitlab.com/minds/minds
Contributions:2 releases, 4416 commits, 5 PRs in 10 years 8 months
gitlabmindsangularcassandracreator-economy
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